Research On Chinese-Foreign Cooperative University Undergraduate Study Experience: The Case Study Of The University Of Nottingham Ningbo

In recent years, Chinese-foreign cooperative schools develop rapidly in China, and Chinese-foreign cooperative university has become a new force of China’s higher education.Since the birth of Chinese-foreign cooperative schools, the quality of the introduction of education resources has been the focus of people.At present, the quality evaluation of Chinese-foreign cooperative university mainly focused on the system mechanism, less attention is paid on the direct beneficiaries of university students. Students are the direct and main participants of education activities, therefore, the students studying experience can be considered as an important basis of the higher education quality monitoring and integrated into the higher education evaluation, which is of great significance to higher education quality evaluation.Taking The University of Nottingham Ningbo as the case, this dissertation adopts quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the Chinese-foreign university undergraduate study experience and its influence factors.The questionnaire survey is adopted to understand the current study experience situation and influence factors of The University of Nottingham Ningbo undergraduate.The interview is adopted to further discuss how these factors affect undergraduate student experience, and also explore other factors that influence students’ experience.From the analysis of the survey and interview data, following research conclusions can be obtained:Firstly,the overall score or the score of each dimension of the University of Nottingham Ningbo undergraduate study experience is above the middle level. The experience of campus facilities got the highest score, followed by classroom activities, evaluation of the harvest,extracurricular activities.Secondly. The student experience and its dimensions in gender, grade.schooling system, major, parental occupation does not exist significant differences. Rather, there exist significant differences in students’birthplace.grades.mother’s educational level,family income.Thirdly,Peer relationship,teacher-student relationship and teaching system are significantly correlated to the undergraduate study experience. Moreover, a standard regression equation can be established with further regression analysis as below:study experience= 0.441xpeer relationships+0.150xteacher-student relationship+0.055x study attitude+0.297*teaching system.The influence of peer relationships to undergraduate study experience turned out to be the most significant, followed by the teaching system, and next the relationship between teachers and students.Fourthly,Learning environment, individual expectations and personal experience are also important factors that affect undergraduate study experience.